# Principal Engineer, Shopping & Delivery Infra

**Company**: Pinterest
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $285,452-$449,541 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Pinterest is looking for a Principal Engineer to lead the technical strategy and execution for its Indexing & Retrieval Infrastructure across Core, Ads, and Shopping.

The successful candidate will define and drive the long-term technical vision for indexing and retrieval infrastructure, aligning architecture investments to measurable improvements in freshness, quality, coverage, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Key responsibilities include:

- Defining and driving the long-term technical vision for indexing and retrieval infrastructure

- Leading cross-org initiatives to modernize Pinterest's indexing architecture

- Partnering with engineering, product, ML, and infrastructure leaders to align priorities and deliver shared platform capabilities

- Raising the technical bar for retrieval infrastructure by guiding system design, architecture reviews, and execution on complex platform changes

- Building shared platform capabilities such as common metrics, tuning surfaces, and debugging workflows

- Mentoring senior engineers and technical leaders across teams

- Using AI to accelerate analysis, prototyping, and iteration on system design options

Requirements:

- Deep expertise building and evolving large-scale indexing, search, recommendation, or ads retrieval systems

- Strong technical leadership experience operating across multiple teams or organizations

- Proven ability to lead large modernization efforts

- Exceptional systems thinking and problem-solving skills

- Strong communication skills

- Demonstrated experience using AI to improve speed and quality in day-to-day engineering workflows

The position is offered at a salary range of $285,452-$449,541 USD and is eligible for equity.

## Skills

### Required
- indexing
- retrieval systems
- technical leadership
- AI
- system design
- architecture reviews
- platform capabilities

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